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In a country awash with guns, with more firearms than people, the parked car has become a new flashpoint in the debates over how and whether to regulate gun safety.

The growing number of firearms kept in vehicles has become a new point of contention in the debates over regulating gun safety.

“When kids are rejected at an early age, that's a very hard thing. They lose empathy skills and everything else if they are rejected earlier."

NOPD is questioning an independent investigation by the Office of Independent Police Monitoring found its officers mishandled a complaint against a city official.

What can New Orleans learn from other cities when it comes to fighting crime?

New Orleans police have resorted to hiring civilians to do detective work among other tasks as cops struggle to keep up with crime rates that have marked the city as the murder capital of the US.

The New Orleans Police Department superintendent is holding a news conference Thursday to address police patrols as well as response to service calls.

According to a report in The Advocate, homicides in rural Louisiana are surging. The CDC and the FBI data indi...

This marks the 13th shooting on a New Orleans interstate this year. Three people have died.

Local police attribute many of the recent shootings to multiple factors including drugs and social media.